SHERPA: a band of professional revolutionaries who knew all the modern techniques of terror - and were inventing a few new ones.

KANTI: self-styled 'spirit' of the revolution, as beautiful as she was deadly, an expert in all the lethal tricks of Kung-Fu.

NARAYAN: an unscrupulous Nepalese aristocrat who would sell anything - and anybody - for personal gain.

KUNWAR: a killer who could run like a jungle cat and kill as quickly and viciously.

The place was Nepal. The time was now. Killmaster had to learn a new language of death and this time the fate of Asia depended on his learning it right!